Notes:
Three of these fruiting bodies (2 mature, 1 young) were the only fleshy fungi I found on this walk. They were all on the same hardwood log, but not clustered. I worked on keying this out for a while, worked through pholiota, gymnopilus, agrocybe, hypholoma, stropharia, basically anything saprobic with brown spores. The keys, literally, mocked me for even attempting to identify this. I’m now completely convinced that Arora and Kuo are two of the funniest guys I’ve never met and not at all convinced that I’ve correctly identified this LBM as a Pluteus cervinus. In my defense, when I saw them on the log after hours of entertaining myself with sessile fungi on bark, I thought they MUST be something special.